University of Heidelberg

By Eliane Ettmüller

During the research work for my dissertation, I was fortunate enough to stumble upon the originals of James Sanua’s magazines, which are in family possession. The substantial work of the author in terms of satire magazines, which was published between 1878 and 1910, is mostly unexplored. The magazines offer a superb perspective on world politics from the point of view of an Egyptian intellectual in exile. They are mainly composed in French and Arabic (primarily Egyptian dialect), and illustrated with caricatures that get more and more artistic and detailed. I have received the consent of the family to publish this rich material for the sake of research. We are therefore in the process of building up a web-page as a subproject of B1, which will make James Sanua’s magazins accessible to scholars from all over the world. 

Responsibles: Matthias Arnold and Eliane Ettmüller

Assistants: Nina Sassani and Johannes Alisch